Santa Barbara
Home invasion victim calls cops, arrested on drug charges
GOLETA — Jackson Burns opened the door to his Goleta home last week to be confronted by an unknown number of masked home-invasion robbers. Hours later, Burns, 18, was himself
Two arrests in two months for purported drug dealer
SANTA BARBARA — Arrested last month on multiple drug charges, a 29-year-old man found himself in cuffs again on Tuesday, along with several alleged associates. Brandon Gaffke was first apprehended
Deadlocked jury leads to mistrial in Santa Barbara murder case
SANTA BARBARA — Following a month-long first-degree murder trial featuring multiple defendants, a deadlocked jury forced Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Brian Hill to declare a mistrial last week. The
Suspected armed robber found nursing wound at LA hotel
SANTA PAULA — Santa Paula police arrested Rosendo Lopez, 29, of Thousand Oaks on charges of armed robbery earlier this month. According to police spokeswoman and records supervisor Melissa King,
Tri-county meth-cocaine operation shut down
SANTA BARBARA — After four months of ongoing investigation, Santa Barbara County narcotics investigators succeeded Friday in shutting down a highly-organized and multi-level methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking operation that spider-webbed
Undocumented resident arrested for child abuse
SANTA BARBARA — Rocio Silva, 19-year-old mother of a six-week-old infant, was arrested on felony charges of child abuse following the serious injury of her baby early Wednesday morning. In
College student suspected of supplying mail order drugs
SANTA BARBARA — Suspected of plying his business studies toward an illicit drug trade, a city college student was arrested Tuesday on multiple trafficking charges. Throughout the month of June,
Pair of Santa Barbara graffiti suspects busted
SANTA BARBARA — A two-month-long investigation into the city’s upsurge in graffiti vandalism came to an end last Wednesday with the arrest of a pair of active criminally artistic suspects.
Seven-month hunt for drug dealer ends in Santa Barbara
GOLETA — A narcotics investigation lasting more than seven months concluded Friday with the arrest of 29-year-old Brandon Gaffke on charges of trafficking in methamphetamine and heroin. Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara pot dispensary busted
SANTA BARBARA — In the county’s ongoing campaign to bring the highest levels of law enforcement to bear upon the area’s controversial proliferation of illegally-operated marijuana dispensaries, city narcotics detectives
